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Mobility extensions to industrial-strength wireless sensor networks

  • US 9,699,768 B2
  • Filed: 12/24/2013
  • Issued: 07/04/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for storing and forwarding messages between a plurality of wireless entities in which at least one of the wireless devices is mobile, the method comprising:

  • (a) storing, by a first wireless entity of a plurality of wireless entities, sensor data;

    (b) establishing a first connection between the first wireless entity and a second wireless entity of the plurality of wireless entities, the second wireless entity establishing a second connection with a third wireless entity;

    (c) receiving, by the second wireless entity from the first wireless entity while temporarily in wireless range of each other, a first message comprising the sensor data, the second wireless entity storing the sensor data;

    (d) transmitting, by the second wireless entity, the first message to the third wireless entity;

    (e) receiving, by the second wireless entity from the third wireless entity, a second message;

    (f) initiating transmission, by the second wireless entity to the first wireless entity while temporarily in wireless range of each other, the second message before transmission of the first message to the third wireless is complete and(g) excluding, by the first wireless entity, retransmission of data indicated in a return receipt, from the transmission.

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